November 2016

scoop.co.nz - 22nd November, 2016
Managing Director of AFT Pharmaceuticals, Dr Hartley Atkinson, says that the pharmaceutical industry needs to take a leading role in helping reduce antibiotic use.
Following on from the World Health Organisation’s antibiotics awareness campaign, this week a New Zealand online discussion begins...

outbreaknewstoday.com - 20th November, 2016
Four people from the North Canterbury settlement of Waiau have contracted norovirus over the past two days.
Two adults and two children from three different families are affected.
All are isolated in their own homes.
In otherwise healthy individuals Norovirus, a particularly contagious gastro...

scoop.co.nz - 11th November, 2016
New Zealanders are in the dark about the threat of infectious diseases, according to University of Auckland microbiologist, Dr Siouxsie Wiles.
“An island mentality means New Zealanders often dismiss the threat of infectious diseases as a third world problem, or assume that...

debgroup.com
The robot’s name may be fanciful, but the task it’s tackling is quite serious. Researchers at the Health and Safety Laboratory in Derbyshire in Great Britain are using “Vomiting Larry” to learn more about how the infectious norovirus spreads. Vomiting Larry is a humanoid simulated...

gizmodo.com.au - 5th November, 2016
The US Centres for Disease Control has released a report in which it identifies over a dozen cases of a deadly, antibiotic-resistant fungus called Candida auris. It's the first time this super-strain has been found in the US, and disturbingly, four...

scoop.co.nz - 4th November, 2016
Deaths attributed to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could be higher than deaths attributed to cancer in 35 years if no action is taken to address increasing rates of resistance, says The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (the RACP) and the Australasian Society...

wwltv.com - 8th June, 2016
NEW ORLEANS -- A Pennsylvania woman was treated by doctors and is well now, but her infection is raising serious concerns for U.S. health officials.
They want to know how super bacteria, that are resistant to a powerful antibiotic, got in her...

contagionlive.com - 31st October, 2016
Mosquito season may be drawing to a close in the United States, but it is just beginning on the other side of the equator—meaning, potentially more Zika virus cases in countries such as Brazil, which has been battling an outbreak since...